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THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 9
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God loves and rewards a cheerful giver—Thanks be to him for his unspeakable gift.
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For</span> as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
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For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/9/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Cor. 7: 14.">boast</a> of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/9/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Provoking.">provoked</a> very many.
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Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
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Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
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Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/9/5a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR gift, blessing, benevolence.">bounty</a>, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as <i>a matter of</i> bounty, and not as <i>of</i> covetousness.
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But this <i>I say,</i> He which soweth sparingly shall <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/9/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Harvest.">reap</a> also sparingly; and he which <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/9/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Accountability.">soweth</a> bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
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Every man according as he <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/9/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 6: 33 (33-34).">purposeth</a> in his heart, <i>so let him give;</i> not <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/9/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Hypocrisy.">grudgingly</a>, or of necessity: for God loveth a <sup>c</sup><a href="2_cor/9/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Cheerfulness.">cheerful</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="2_cor/9/7d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Generosity.">giver</a>.
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And God <i>is</i> able to make all <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/9/8a" mark="a" type="C" title="Philip. 4: 18 (15-23); Jacob 2: 19 (17-19); TG Grace.">grace</a> abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all <i>things,</i> may abound to every good work:
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(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
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Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for <i>your </i>food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/9/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>;)
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Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/9/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Thanksgiving.">thanksgiving</a> to God.
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/9/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Heb. 13: 16.">administration</a> of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
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Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for <i>your</i> liberal distribution unto them, and unto all <i>men;</i>
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And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/9/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Thanksgiving.">Thanks</a> <i>be</i> unto God for his unspeakable <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/9/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="James 1: 17.">gift</a>.
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